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In golf, the position of a ball when it is directly between the hole for which an adversary is playing and his ball.
In golf, to hinder by a stimy.
In golf, the position of a ball on a putting-green when it is directly between the hole for which an adversary is playing and his ball at any distance over six inches between the two.

"Don't be silly, Sara," said Aunt Janet, a little stimy. — The Golden Road
"You laid me that stimy of set purpose," cried Dickon, throwing down his club in a rage; "and this is the third time you have done it in this game." — A Monk of Fife
In a day or two, he was drinking beer (which he would previously have rejected as poison), was sleeping like a top, and was laying down the law on stimy, and other "mysteries more than Eleusinian." — Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 19, 1892